payback vs shearing

payback

noun
  • A benefit, reward, a form of recompense. 

  • An act of revenge. 

  • A return on investment. 

  • A refund; reimbursement. 

shearing

noun
  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. 

  • The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. 

  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 

  • The material cut off in this way. 

  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

How often have the words payback and shearing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )